They want to replace VAT tax on sales

Presidential Assistant Arkady Dvorkovich said yesterday that large -scale redistribution of resources is possible only with the appearance of a “tax that is associated with the local level” is a sales tax that should replace VAT. According to the Vedomosti newspaper in the article “Give Trillion” (No. 220, dated November 22), this castling (about VAT flows and sales tax) may become the basis of decentralization, which President Dmitry Medvedev promised to conduct.

The Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina agreed that when decentralization, it was necessary to discuss the issue of returning sales tax, but promised that she would do everything possible so that there were no two of these taxes at the same time.

I. about. The Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov noted that the discussion on the introduction of sales tax was completed several years ago, when VAT was left from these two indirect taxes. He believes that there is no need to raise the question again. Another official of the Ministry of Finance called the replacement a utopia, a replacement of 3.6 trillion rubles (income from VAT in 2012) - one.

Experts also consider the deer “non -stale” and the problems of the regions are not decisive, and in the regions they want the federal authorities to put things in order in the current system of distribution of income.